A ROCK superstar who lives in Essex has said she has given “women all over the world permission to be different’ ahead of her UK tour next year.
Suzi Quatro, 75, was born in Detroit and began her career fronting all-girl garage band The Pleasure Seekers, playing alongside her sisters.
Suzi’s own music fit in with the UK’s glam explosion in the 1970s and she had four top 10 singles between 1973 and 1974, including two number ones with Can the Can and Devil Gate Drive.
The singer and bass player said to PA she grew up in a family of musicians meaning she did not think of herself as a girl musician,
She said: “Sometimes they lump me in with glam, but I’m rock and roll based, it’s only the fact that my hits started in the glam era that I get lumped in.
“The boys had on the makeup, I had on nothing, plain black leather suit, they were dressed up to the nines, so I was anti-glam.”
Debbie Harry, Chrissie Hinde, Tina Weymouth, Donita Sparks, Cherrie Currie, Joan Jett, and Lita Ford all said in the film they could not do have done what they did without Suzi Quatro going first.
Suzi said: “So that at that moment, I had that light bulb moment, I went, ‘oh, my God, oh my god’, I started to cry.
“Cherie Currie is a good friend, I called her the next day, and I told her the story, and I said, ‘Cherie, I just realised something’, she said, ‘what?’ I said, ‘by me doing what I did, I gave women all over the world permission to be different’.”
Suzi will embark on a 10-date tour of the UK in April 2026 with dates in Glasgow, Southend, Birmingham, Bath, and Bournemouth, along with her fourth London Palladium show.
Suzi also has a new album in the making which she says will see her go “back to my beginnings” with her “original rock sound”.
